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ArticleTuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland)2023

Environmental risk of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection: Strategies for advancing methodology.

Rachel A Mercaldo, Julia E Marshall, Gerard A Cangelosi, Maura Donohue, Joseph O Falkinham, Noah Fierer, Joshua P French, Matthew J Gebert, Jennifer R Honda, Ettie M Lipner and 6 more

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Article in Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 12 institutions in 4 countries.

Rachel A MercaldoDivision of Intramural Research, Epidemiology and Population Studies Unit, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, MD, USA. Electronic address: rachel.mercaldo@nih.gov.
Julia E MarshallDivision of Intramural Research, Epidemiology and Population Studies Unit, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, MD, USA. Electronic address: julia.marshall@nih.gov.
Gerard A CangelosiDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: gcang@uw.edu.
Maura DonohueUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Electronic address: donohue.maura@epa.gov.
Joseph O FalkinhamDepartment of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. Electronic address: jofiii@vt.edu.
Noah FiererDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. Electronic address: noah.fierer@colorado.edu.
Joshua P FrenchDepartment of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA. Electronic address: joshua.french@ucdenver.edu.
Matthew J GebertDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. Electronic address: matthew.gebert@colorado.edu.
Jennifer R HondaCenter for Genes, Environment, and Health, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA. Electronic address: HondaJ@njhealth.org.
Ettie M LipnerDivision of Intramural Research, Epidemiology and Population Studies Unit, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, MD, USA. Electronic address: ettie.lipner@nih.gov.
Theodore K MarrasDepartment of Medicine, University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: ted.marras@uhn.ca.
Kozo MorimotoDivision of Clinical Research, Fukujuji Hospital, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: morimotok@fukujuji.org.
Max SalfingerCollege of Public Health & Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA. Electronic address: max@usf.edu.
Janet StoutSpecial Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Electronic address: jstout@specialpathogenslab.com.
Rachel ThomsonGallipoli Medical Research Institute & Greenslopes Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Electronic address: r.thomson@uq.edu.au.
D Rebecca PrevotsDivision of Intramural Research, Epidemiology and Population Studies Unit, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, MD, USA. Electronic address: rprevots@nih.gov.
Office of Extramural Research · USCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences · USEnvironmental Protection Agency · USJapan Anti Tuberculosis Association · JPNational Jewish Health · USStatistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute · USThe University of Queensland · AUUniversity Health Network · CAUniversity of Pittsburgh · USUniversity of South Florida · USUniversity of Washington · USVirginia Tech · US

Funding

Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AI999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases organized a symposium in June 2022, to facilitate discussion of the environmental risks for nontuberculous mycobacteria exposure and disease. The expert researchers presented recent studies and identified numerous research gaps. This report summarizes the discussion and identifies six major areas of future research related to culture-based and culture independent laboratory methods, alternate culture media and culturing conditions, frameworks for standardized laboratory methods, improved environmental sampling strategies, validation of exposure measures, and availability of high-quality spatiotemporal data.

Indexed as

Mycobacterium Infections, NontuberculousMycobacterium tuberculosisCulture MediaHumansNontuberculous MycobacteriaSpecimen HandlingCulture Media

Identifiers

PMID36706504
PMCPMC10023322
OpenAlexW4313856889

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